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...Padgett, Timothy Roche and Cathy Booth Thomas led our team in Florida, supplemented by a colorful analysis from the great novelist Carl Hiaasen. Our political correspondents and our photographers Brooks Kraft and Diana Walker documented what was happening behind the scenes with their candidates. Steve Lopez went on the road with Ralph Nader, while contributor Barbara Ehrenreich explained why she felt no guilt in voting...
...Vietnam? Didn't they win the battles for civil rights and women's rights? - they are ignorant of their own capacity for evil. The thought would not occur to them. It is an impossibility. They, evil? Ironically, theirs is much the same dangerous innocence for which the prophetic novelist Graham Greene ("The Quiet American") arraigned Americans in Indochina in the mid-1950s, well before they had entered into their fiasco there...
...nations," the novelist John Dos Passos wrote many years ago. Is that it? Or are we one nation, so intricately balanced in its impulses, so symmetrically cracked down the middle, that we cannot decide whether we are compassionate conservatives or fascist bleeding hearts? It's not that George Wallace was right long ago and Ralph Nader is correct now that there's not a dime's worth of difference between a Democrat and a Republican. Allowing for inflation, there's several dollars' worth...
Sheila Bridges, 36, likes to say she designs low-maintenance homes for high-maintenance people. That her clientele includes hip-hop music producer Sean ("Puffy") Combs, antivirus-software designer Peter Norton and novelist Tom Clancy is a testament to her diverse appeal. When music executive Andre Harrell called upon her to update his Manhattan apartment in the style of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance, Bridges achieved the look so artfully that her efforts were featured in House & Garden. Fusing minimalism with romanticism, she creates modern settings by using vintage pieces...
...There were not enough foster homes for them, and many lived for months in unheated summer-vacation camps. A few were exploited; many were troubled. One could argue that these 10,000 were pathetically few compared with the 6 million lost in the Holocaust. But one of the Kinder, novelist Lore Segal, makes this poignant point: "None of the foster parents with whom I stayed, and there were five of them, could stand me for very long, but all of them had the grace to take in a Jewish child." That was a quality singularly lacking elsewhere (particularly...